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DDI2.5 XML CODEBOOK RECORD FOR STUDY NUMBER 3954 British Household Panel Survey Combined Work-Life History Data, 1990-2005 395410.5255/UKDA-SN-3954-1 Halpin, B., University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research Copyright Institute for Social and Economic Research Economic and Social Research Council UK Data Service 17 December 1998 ECONOMIC ACTIVITYEMPLOYMENT HISTORYOCCUPATIONAL LIFEOCCUPATIONAL STATUS Labour and employmentConsumption and consumer behaviourSocial conditions and indicatorsSocial behaviour and attitudesIncome, property and investment/saving Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which ran for 19 waves from 1991-2009, collected extensive information on respondents' labour market status at three points: at the time of interview at each wave of the panel; throughout the period between 1 September a year before the interview date; and retrospectively from when the respondent first left full-time education. Because the retrospective information has been collected in two tranches (one focusing on employment status, the other on occupational information), there are four different types of labour market history information, located in different files in the BHPS database. This complexity is a necessary aspect of longitudinal information, but had inhibited use of the work-life history data. In order to better facilitate such use, a set of 'reconciled' files, the British Household Panel Survey Combined Work-Life History Data, was created, constituting single continuous records each containing all the information of a particular type in a single location. The first part of the exercise was to take 'current status' information for each wave and combine it with the inter-wave history, and then to combine the waves thus creating a continuous record from September 1990 to the latest wave. The second stage was to take the lifetime employment status history collected at Wave 2, and the lifetime occupational history collected at Wave 3, and to combine each of them with analogous information drawn from the combined panel file, thus creating employment and occupational histories that stretch from the labour market entry to the latest wave. The third stage was to combine these two extended lifetime histories into a single record which contains both employment status information (with good information about non-employed spells) and occupational information (i.e. details about the job held during each employed spell). Further details of the methods used are included in the following technical paper: Halpin, B. (1997) Unified BHPS work-life histories: combining multiple sources into a user-friendly format, Technical Papers of the ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change, 13, Colchester: University of Essex. Users are recommended to use these data in conjunction with the main <a href="http://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/series/?sn=200005" title="BHPS">BHPS</a> dataset. It should also be noted that this dataset is in package format; see READ file for further details on formats and use. For the fifth edition (November 2006), the files 'newpan', 'xlempe' and 'xljobe' were updated. The rest of the data and documentation remain unchanged. Main Topics: Files include: panel-derived employment status and occupational histories; processed retrospective job history; processed retrospective employment history; extended job history; extended employment status history. United Kingdom IndividualsFamilies/householdsNationalAdultsHouseholdsYoung people Respondents to the BHPS Numeric Longitudinal/panel/cohort See BHPS documentation for details. Compilation or synthesis of existing materialSee documentation for further details. The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the <a href="https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/app/uploads/cd137-enduserlicence.pdf" target="_blank">End User Licence Agreement</a>.Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you. See <restrctn> https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/bhps https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/bounce?type=case-study&id=179 https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/bounce?type=case-study&id=6 https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/bounce?type=case-study&id=149 https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/bounce?type=case-study&id=52 https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/bounce?type=case-study&id=62 https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/bounce?type=case-study&id=7 https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/bounce?type=case-study&id=84 https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/bounce?type=case-study&id=132 https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/bounce?type=case-study&id=83 https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/bounce?type=case-study&id=160 https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/bounce?type=case-study&id=143 Halpin, B. (1997) Unified BHPS work-life histories:: combining multiple sources into a user-friendly format, [Working paper].Colchester, Essex: University of Essex. Unified BHPS work-life histories: Halpin, B. (2000) BHPS work-life history files, version 2 [Research report], Colchester, Essex: Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex.. BHPS work-life history files, version 2 Halpin, B. (1998) 'Unified BHPS work-life histories:: combining multiple sources into a user-friendly format', Bulletin of Sociological Methodology / Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique Unified BHPS work-life histories: Lampard, R. (2007) 'Is social mobility an echo of educational mobility?: Parents' educations and occupations and their children's occupational attainment', Sociological Research Online Is social mobility an echo of educational mobility? https://oai.ukdataservice.ac.uk:8443/oai/provider 3954 2024-11-28T07:23:52Z ddi:codebook:2_5